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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Tiana Anglin

Tiana Anglin Tiana Anglin – No Place Like Home ‘No Place Like Home: Squatter’s Paradise’ represents a culture of expedience, make-do comfort and the dynamics of settlement. It suggests contrasting...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Dwane Bailey

Dwane Bailey Dwane Bailey – Road to Bamboo Town As an artist, without the ability to actualize an idea or concept my art would not exist. My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret the...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Angela Baker

Angela Baker Angela Baker – Dawn in Blue Mountain I grew up in the foothills of the Blue Mts. in Golden Spring. The distant atmospheric pale blues always lured me long before I knew about aerial...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Ralston Bennett

Ralston Bennett Ralston Bennett – H.I.M The artwork of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, is done to simulate stained glass and could serve as a double viewed art piece, in all, a kind of spiritual...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Claudia Porges Beyer

Claudia Porges Beyer Claudia Porges Beyer – In the Garden   I experiment with found objects, mosaic patterns, vegetable and floral forms. In the last decade I have created a technique constructing...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Venice Black

Venice Black Venice Black – Fiwi Muma (left) & One G.A.D (right) “Fiwi Muma represents Nanny of the Maroons. The leaves on her right shoulder represent the guerilla warfare that she usually used to...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Hope Brooks

Hope Brooks Hope Brooks – The Door “…Where thirsting longing eyes Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more….” Lines from the poem “ECHO” by Christina Rossetti. In this poem the...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Nicole Brown

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown – Push Cart Push Cart is a black and white photograph taken in Downtown Kingston. The intent of the photograph  was to highlight the activities of vendors along the street...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Shanique Brown-Moulton

Shanique Brown-Moulton  Shanique Brown-Moulton – Beautifully and Wonderfully Made Brown-Moulton is heavily influenced by the American painter Kehinde Wiley and the content of her work speaks to...

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NGJ SUmmer Exhibition: Dana-Marie Bullock

Dana-Marie Bullock As a case in point, in “Scenes,” some may view the disjointed female body parts as an embodiment of the steady drip of oppression faced by females in society, with the bold eyes...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Camille Chedda

Camille Chedda Camille Chedda- The Three Disgraces Three black women straddle a stone wall baring images that portray Jamaican culture, specifically, Jamaica’s dancehall culture. The women endure...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Esther Chin

Esther Chin Esther Chin – Ribbons for Ma ‘My art is the truth of my soul through which I speak’ A meticulous individual, a native of the lush and scenic parish of St Mary, Jamaica. During my formative...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Hasani Claxton

Hasani Claxton Hasani Claxton – Angry Black Woman/A Right to be Hostile (left) & Buggin’Out (right) My paintings and sculptures highlight the individuality of Black people — a luxury often denied...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Katrina Coombs

Katrina Coombs Katrina Coombs – Grounded I have a passion for fibre and an understanding of the sensitivity of threads and fabric which has grown beyond design and into sculptural forms.  My practice...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Carol Crichton

Carol Crichton Enter a caption In my work I search for answers to “who am I?”, “who are we?”; looking backwards for answers to the now with which to enrich the future. I use a multi-layered approach to...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Rex Dixon

Rex Dixon Rex Dixon – Mountain View The two paintings submitted “Mountain View” and “Savannah” are visual  autobiographical statements commenting on natural phenomena which express psychological...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Laura Facey

Laura Facey Laura Facey – 62 Men and 63 Women Representing the enslaved persons who labored on the ‘Mount Plenty’ property in the Parish of St Ann, Jamaica as documented in 1820 at the time of the...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Ania Freer

Ania Freer Ania Freer – RIVER MAID ‘RIVER MAID is a video installation which tells the story of a woman who was abducted by a mermaid in the village of Shrewsbury Logwood, Westmoreland. This piece of...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Maxine Gibson

Maxine Gibson  Maxine Gibson – Pyramind on the River of Time Pyramid On The River Of Time is a reflection on the old and new as the story goes. Works are focused on civilization, be it urban or rural...

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NGJ Summer Exhibition: Nadine Hall

Nadine Hall Heirlooms 2: Cycles of Genocide, is an exploration of problematize masculinities within the Jamaican society and was created to stimulate discourse regarding the self-destructive tendencies...

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